Shale Tiger Extensions is an optional add-on library that adds additional ease-of-use features for Shale applications that run on a Java Standard Edition 5 (popularly known by its code name during development, "tiger"). All other prerequisites for Shale remain the same. In particular, these features work on JavaServer Faces 1.1 implementations.

The following functionality is added by these extensions:

• org.apache.shale.tiger.managed - Provides the ability to declare managed beans, and managed property initialization expressions or values, with annotations in the bean classes instead of with <managed-bean> declaration elements.
• org.apache.shale.tiger.view - Provides the ability for bean classes to receive the services provided by org.apache.shale.view.ViewController, even if the class does not implement that interface.